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February 24, 2008

Tamiya Baldre DB01 4wd buggy

Following the recent successful launch of the DB01 chassis buggy Durga, the designers at Tamiya are now preparing the 2nd release called Baldre, which is pronounced as “Baldur” as in the diety in Norse mythology. While the body parts set was previously introduced, Tamiya now officially announce the complete assembly kit. With fully-enclosed twin belt drivetrain and other innovations developed from the race-proven TRF501X, this buggy puts TRF racing features in the hands of everyday racers.

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February 24, 2008

LRP S18 Touring Car

We briefly showed you this car in our Toy Fair coverage and now we can present to you full information about the new S18TC from LRP. The S18 Touring Car is an 1/18 scale mini touring car with super efficient shaft driven 4WD, spider differentials front and rear, oil filled threaded shock absorbers and CVDs on all corners. The car is available as a kit or in RTR form which includes the LRP A.I. Micro Reverse waterproof speedo, LRP Phaser Sport 27MHz AM receiver, micro battery stick pack, 220V charger, LRP A2-STX Sport transmitter incl. charge socket, full-size steering servo and high performance 380 size Micro motor

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February 24, 2008

O’Donnell truggy prototype

Our partners Neo Buggy have some images of the prototype O’Donnell truggy as seen at this weekends Nitro Challenge race in Arizona. This particular car was used by Jared Tebo, who managed to qualify in 4th of the truggy A-main and more pictures of it can be found here.

Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]

February 24, 2008

Yaniv Sivan takes Israel League Rd4

This weekend saw race number 4 in the Israeli League 2008 for 1/8 scale, contested at the Hot-Wheels race club in North Israel. The weather was fantastic and traction was high and this allowed Yaniv Sivan to TQ for the 30 minute final. At the early part of the final there was a nice competition between Yaniv Sivan, Nir Sivan, Yaniv Levi and Golan Levi and up 4 minutes to the finish Yaniv Sivan and Nir Sivan had a close battle and could open a gap on the rest of the field. However Nir Sivan flamed out after the middle jump and this left Yaniv Sivan to win followed by Yaniv Levi in 2nd and in Golan Levi in 3rd.

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February 23, 2008

Team Magic M8 buggy

Our partners Auto RC in Spain have the first production pictures of the new M8 buggy by Team Magic. The front and rear of the car now sport big bore shock absorbers, mounted to the top instead of the side of the shock cap and the car now sports a more conventional buggy look. There are also new strengthened front and rear wishbones, adjustable rear uprights, new geometry and new CVD’s. Along with new differentials, a new style bodyshell and a lowered centre of gravity, its safe to say that this is another completely new buggy from TM.

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February 23, 2008

Carson Dragster Brushless sets

Carson have released a number of new brushless motor and speed controller sets for both 1/10th and micro scales. For touring and off road there are 2 sets, with either a 10T and 12T BL motor combined with the Dragster Cup or Dragster Sport system that both provide high torque, acceleration and top speed. The Dragster Cup ESC works with sensorless 12 an 8 turn brushless motors, while the Dragster Sport ESC can handle sensorless 10 an 8 turn brushless motors. For your micro chassis the Dragster Micro set provides high torque and a sensitive brushless speed control specifically designed for the use in 1:18 and 1:16 scale Micro RC cars like the Tamiya TamTech-Gear (chassis GT-01 & GB-01), Xray M18 and more.

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February 23, 2008

GiBon Goo wins KORG Series Rd1

Xray have a report from round 1 of the Korea On road Race Grand Prix series that was run last weekend at the Girina Raceway in Kyunggi-do, Seoul. Xray NT1 driver GiBon Goo showed again that he would be the racer to beat in 2008 took by taking a spectacular win in the final after starting from second on the grid. The 2nd spot went to SeYoung Oh, while in 3rd spot was another Xray racer
GiYeul Kim

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 22, 2008

Daily News Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Report from the EP Euro Indoor Race 2008 – Link [gaz-on.net]
> Ultimate Racing promotional video – Link [vimeo.com]
> Fastrax Clutch Spring Tool – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
> ABC Hobby release the AC/DC Expert Charger 5S – Link [abchobby.com]